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In the Light of What We Know
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To Lily
Our concern with history, so Hilary's thesis ran, is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.
—W. G. Sebald,
1. Arrival or Wrong Beginnings
2. The General Welfare of Our Eastern Empire
3. The Point of Departure or The House of Mourning
4. Welcome Home or Mother of Exiles
5. The Situation in Our Colonies
6. Blood Telegram or Bill and Dave
7. The Violin or Leipzig
8. Poggendorff and Purkyně
9. Dressage and the Common Touch
10. In the Time of the Breaking of Nations
11. Twenty Questions or Failing to Credit Risk
12. Henna Tattoo or Redundant and/or Superfluous
13. Alessandro Moisi Iacoboni
14. The Colonel, the General, the Nuclear Physicist, the Spymaster, and the Novice
15. Where Credit Is Due
16. A Modest Proposal
17. My Brother's Keeper or Betrayal
18. The Blood-Dimmed Tide
19. Requiem for the Unlived Life
20. The Gospel of St. Thomas
21. On Formally Undecidable Propositions or Waiting
22. Our Scattered Leaves
A Note About the Author
Arrival or Wrong Beginnings
Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile's life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. The achievements of exile are permanently undermined by the loss of something left behind forever.
—Edward W. Said, "Reflections on Exile"
Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look like that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there."
—Joseph Conrad,
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
—Herman Melville,
In the early hours of one September morning in 2008, there appeared on the doorstep of our home in South Kensington a brown-skinned man, haggard and gaunt, the ridges of his cheekbones set above an unkempt beard. He was in his late forties or early fifties, I thought, and stood at six foot or so, about an inch shorter than me. He wore a Berghaus jacket whose Velcro straps hung about unclasped and whose sleeves stopped short of his wrists, revealing a strip of paler skin above his right hand where he might once have worn a watch. His weathered hiking boots were fastened with unmatching laces, and from the bulging pockets of his cargo pants, the edges of unidentifiable objects peeked out. He wore a small backpack, and a canvas duffel bag rested on one end against the doorway.
The man appeared to be in a state of some agitation, speaking, as he was, not incoherently but with a strident earnestness and evidently without regard for introductions, as if he were resuming a broken conversation. Moments passed without my interruption as I struggled to place something in his aspect that seemed familiar, but what seized me suddenly was a German name I had not heard in nearly two decades.
At the time, the details of those moments did not impress themselves individually upon my consciousness; only later, when I started to put things down on paper, did they give themselves up to the effort of recollection. My professional life has been spent in finance, a business concerned with fine points, such as the small movement in exchange rates on which the fate of millions of dollars or pounds or yen could hang. But I think it is fair to say that whatever professional success I have had—whatever professional success I
—owes less to an eye for detail, which is common enough in the financial sector, than it does to a grasp of the broad picture in which wide patterns emerge and altogether new business opportunities become visible. Yet in taking on the task of reporting my conversations with Zafar, of collating and presenting all the material he provided, including volumes of rich and extensive notebooks, and of following up with my own research where necessary, it is the matter of representing details that has most occupied me, the details, to be precise, of his story, which is—to risk putting it in such dramatic terms as Zafar would deprecate—the story of the breaking of nations, war in the twenty-first century, marriage into the English aristocracy, and the mathematics of love.
I had not heard the name of the twentieth-century Austrian American mathematician Kurt Gödel since a July weekend in New York, in the early 1990s, when I was visiting from London for a month of induction at the head offices of an investment bank into which I had recently been recruited. In some part I owe my recruitment to the firm, of which I later became a partner, to Zafar, who was already a derivatives trader in the bank's Wall Street offices and who had quickly established a reputation as a bright though erratic financial wizard.
Like Zafar, I was a student of mathematics at Oxford, but that, to put it imprecisely, was the beginning and the end of what we had in common. Mine was a privileged background. My father was born into a well-known landed family in Pakistan, where he met and married my mother. From there, the newlyweds went to Princeton, where they had me, making me an American citizen, and where my father obtained his doctorate before moving to Oxford so that he could take up a chair in physics. I am no genius and I know that without the best English schooling, I would not have been able to make as much as I have of the opportunities that came my way.
Zafar, however, arrived at Oxford in 1987 with a peculiar education, largely cobbled together by his own efforts, having been bored, when not bullied, out of one school after another. His family moved to Britain when he was no more than five years old, but then, at the age of twelve, or ten, by the new reckoning, he returned from Britain to rural Bangladesh for an interval of some years.
To him, Oxford must have seemed, as the expression goes, a long way to come. In our first term there, as we lounged in the Junior Common Room beside windows that gave out onto the garden quad, I observed that Zafar's pronunciation of the names of various Continental mathematicians—Lebesgue, Gauss, Cauchy, Legendre, and Euler—was grotesquely inaccurate. Though my first reaction, I am a little ashamed to say, was to find this rather amusing, I soon grasped that Zafar's errors marked his learning as his own, unlike mine, which carried the imprint of excellent schoolmasters. I must confess to a certain envy at the time.
The greatest difference between us, however, the significance of which I did not begin to ascertain until two years after our first meeting, lay in our social classes. As I mentioned, my father was an academic at Oxford, and my mother, after seeing off her only child to university, had returned to practicing as a psychotherapist, throwing herself into the retraining necessary to make up ground lost while raising me. My maternal grandfather had been Pakistan's ambassador to the United States and had moved in that country's elite internationalist circles; his closest friend had been Mohammad Asad, Pakistani ambassador to the UN shortly after 1947, a man who had begun life as Leopold Weiss, an Austro-Hungarian Jew born in what is now Ukraine. On the paternal side, my grandfather was an industrialist whose fortune, based on landholdings and tenancies, he augmented with the profits of shipping enterprises.
More than once during term time, Zafar came with me to lunch at my parents' home, a large double-fronted, three-story Victorian house like many in that part of Oxford, though somewhat more capacious than the homes of most academics. To this day, whenever I return there, I feel an ease and lightness suffuse my being as I tread across the sweeping arc of the driveway, the gravel crunching underfoot, up to the stained glass of the wide front door.
On his first visit, Zafar stood at the threshold, wiping his feet over and over, his eyes darting about the large hall, his mouth slightly open. Evidently, he was, as people often are, astonished by the books, which were everywhere: shelves hanging wherever a wall would allow, books overflowing onto the floors, even leaning accordion-like on the staircase along the wall. In the family room, old issues of science magazines and journals, my father's subscriptions, sat in box files on shelves that scored the walls like lines on a writing pad. More recent issues lay about in small piles on a sideboard and on the floor. Zafar surveyed all this, but his eyes settled on the far wall that was covered with my father's collection of old maps, mounted and framed, of the Indian subcontinent under the British Raj, an area that today stretches from Pakistan across India to Bangladesh. Zafar drew up to the maps and it was apparent that his focus had fixed on one in particular, a map of the northeast corner of the subcontinent. Minutes passed as he stood silently gazing at it. Only when the time came to move to the summer room for lunch, and my father rested his hand on Zafar's shoulder, was my friend roused from his intense study.
When we left, Zafar suggested that we walk back to college, rather than take a bus, and I agreed, assuming that he wanted to discuss something. The mathematician Kurt Gödel used to walk, setting off at sunset and returning after midnight, and found that his best ideas came to him in this stretch of time. Albert Einstein, who was deeply fond of Gödel, and who was also at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, used to say in his later years, when he no longer engaged in much research, that he went to the institute daily only for the privilege of walking home with Kurt.
I thought Zafar wanted to talk, but in fact he was silent all the way down the Banbury Road. I sensed that he was searching not so much for a form of words but for clarity of thought. I recalled the map to which my friend was obviously drawn, and though I wanted to ask him what it was that had held his attention, I was reluctant to break the contemplative silence. On reaching Broad Street, as we approached the college gates, he spoke. You must meet my parents, he said, and that is where he left it.
More than a year passed before I did. On the day Zafar finished his final exams, in two years rather than three, when my own were still one year off, he informed me that his parents were to arrive at seven thirty the following morning. He asked me to meet him at the college's north entrance, to help him load his things, after which I was most welcome, he said, to come with them to a café in Headington for some breakfast, before the three of them, he and his parents, set off on the journey back to London.
At seven thirty on Saturday, Oxford was, and I expect it still is on every Saturday morning, perfectly quiet. It was odd that his parents should arrive so early; after all, the trip from London would have taken only an hour or thereabouts. The only explanation I could imagine was that Zafar was ashamed of his parents and did not want others to meet them, and that it was for this reason he had arranged to be collected at such an hour.
I found Zafar and his father already loading bags and boxes into a Datsun Sunny. His father had a beard and was wearing a skullcap. Standing in gray trousers, Hush Puppies, and a green V-neck sweater, he greeted me with a smile, tilting his head in what seemed a rather deferential way.
Asalaam-u-alaikum
, he said, before breaking into Urdu, a language that I know Bangladeshis of a certain age could speak but that is today, in the main, the language of Pakistanis. I supposed that Zafar had mentioned to him that my family was Pakistani originally. When I responded that my Urdu was very poor, Zafar's father looked disappointed, but then he took my hand into both of his and, rather unconfidently, repeated hello a few times.
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The Ikorodu region expresses our heartfelt gratitude on behalf of the children ministry to the Almighty God for His faithfulness and for the incredible victory he gave us to conclude this year's Xmas party for our children.
We started this year and He did with us and still is with us even until now, to Him be all the glory.
To our brothers and sisters who have supported us in prayers, cash, kind, organizing and coordinating, gifts and services towards the success of this year's party, you have done very well and God will bless you immensely. Our kids had a rocking time at the party, complete with bouncing castles, games, dancing and Santa!
You will not lack because what you have done is done for God. Thank you and God bless.


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Wednesday, Craxi defended the legitimacy of armed struggle by the Palestine Liberation Organization, provoking shouts and catcalls by rightist and other members of the Chamber of Deputies. He went on to win a vote of confidence by a comfortable margin.
But Thursday, during a debate in the Senate, Craxi's remarks were sharply criticized by those who theoretically are his political allies. Party leaders spent the day in intensive negotiations.
Thursday night, members of the five-party coalition predicted that Craxi's government would win a Senate vote of confidence today.
In the remarks, Craxi, a Socialist, said he opposed armed struggle by Palestinians as counterproductive and a threat to innocent people, but he added, "I don't contest the legitimacy of it."
"To contest, to a movement wanting to liberate its own country from a foreign occupation, the legitimacy of the resort to arms means to go against the laws of history," he said.
The remarks had international repercussions -- Israel denounced them and PLO leader Yasser Arafat praised Craxi's courage -- and powerful effects throughout the Italian political system.
Many Christian Democrats believe that Craxi's remarks were designed as an opening to the left, to expand his party's appeal to communist voters.
The first Craxi government fell over how it handled the aftermath of the hijacking by Palestinians of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.


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A: У вас модуль не подключен. Добавьте QT += printsupport в .pro
https://doc.qt.io/QT-5/qprinter.html

A: Как выше уже сказали
добавить QT += printsupport в .pro
и перепишите инклюды по человечески. После подключения printsupport:
#include <QPrinter>
#include <QPrintDialog>

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License Plate Numbers: A Major Equalizer in Hit and Run Cases
Nov 19, 2015 Brown Moore & Associates Car Accidents, Personal Injury
In August 2015, WSOC TV reported the continued surge of hit-and-run accidents in North Carolina. As of the date of that report, the state saw 4,100 accidents since the beginning of the year, including 13 fatalities. State Troopers cited the biggest challenge in finding the drivers that cause these accidents as the failure of victims to record full license plate numbers.
Our Charlotte hit-and-run lawyers agree that license plate numbers would make the greatest difference in solving these cases. However, we also understand that many victims are in no position to obtain this information. By retaining composure, however, it is possible to handle hit-and-run accidents effectively.
Both Injuries and NC Law Can Prevent the Capture of License Plate Information
All too often, pedestrians become victims of hit-and-run drivers. Since they generally sustain severe injuries, they are often in no position to record license plate information or even make a mental note of it. Vehicle passengers are not immune from serious injuries, either. Considering that many hit-and-run drivers are also drunk and operating at high speeds, major collisions can leave victims seriously injured and incapable of collecting evidence after a crash.
It is also important to note that NC is one of a handful of states that does not require front license plates. This reduces the opportunity to see license plate numbers in some cases.
When Possible, Hit-and-Run Victims Should Respond Quickly and Thoughtfully
Barring severe injuries, hit-and-run accident victims need to keep their wits about them to protect their rights as much as possible after a collision. Despite the rush of adrenaline and feelings of frustration, it is important for victims to know in advance how to handle these accidents. The following tips should help:
Call 911. Even if no emergency medical attention is required, police reports are required in order for victims to file claims. Such reports often contain vital details that others at the scene do not notice.
Look for identifying clues. Obtaining all or a part of the license plate number is best, but even if a license plate number is not visible, the make, model or color of the vehicle can help. Note the direction the vehicle traveled after the accident and try to look at the driver to determine sex, as well as note a hat or other distinctive clothing.
Obtain witness information. Anyone who saw the accident can provide important information. Try to obtain contact information from anyone at the scene and ask witnesses to remain on the scene until police can talk with them.
Carry the right insurance coverage. NC law requires all motorists to carry certain levels of auto insurance, including uninsured motorist coverage, which covers certain levels of injuries and other damages from accidents caused by uninsured and underinsured drivers. Hit-and-run drivers fit within this classification.
Certainly becoming victim to a hit-and-run driver is a frightening and confusing experience. Even individuals who do everything correctly may have legal options that they do not recognize, which is why a no-cost initial consultation with an experienced hit-and-run attorney is so important. Call us at 800-948-0577 or use our convenient online contact form for the guidance needed to recover from this experience as quickly as possible.


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In Production - Ornament Is Crime
Architecture & Design Editor Virginia McLeod gives us a sneak peek at a book about to leave our shelves for yours
Ornament Is Crime in production in the Phaidon Light Room
It's been a while since we brought you one of our In Production stories, so as the release date of our new architecture book Ornament Is Crime gets closer, we thought we'd ask Virginia McLeod, our commissioning editor for Architecture & Design, to tell us a little bit about it.
We like to think of these In Production stories as an attempt to highlight the hard work - and share a bit of the magic - that goes into creating the books we love to make - and that you love to buy.
Here, Virginia reveals a little bit of the back story to the book, what inspired the title and her own personal favourite building in it. By the way Ornament Is Crime is printed and ready to pre-order here now.
Choosing the photographic pairings for Ornament Is Crime
First of all what's with the title? It sounds familiar… It should do! It's inspired by a seminal lecture by one of the founders of Modernism, the Austrian architect Adolf Loos. His lecture Ornament And Crime, given in 1910, was a deliberately provocative attack on the highly ornamental style of the day and went on to be fundamental in defining the ideology of Modernist architecture.
So what's the basic idea? Like its brutalist architecture predecessor, This Brutal World, Ornament Is Crime differs from any other on the market in proposing that there is a continuity from the iconic early 20th century Modernism through to the present day This can be seen in both the iconic works of the Modernist canon, as well as in the work of some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century.
Ornament Is Crime in the Phaidon Light Room
So in common with This Brutal World, a mix of old and new? Yes. The book includes works by the great early Modernists such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, as well as buildings by the great mid-century Modernists such as Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra, Arne Jacobsen and Craig Ellwood. These are displayed alongside work by the best contemporary architects who can now be seen as continuing the Modernist tradition, including: Snøhetta, Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Rem Koolhaas, Tadao Ando and John Pawson.
Who wrote it? The architecture writers Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill who are also the co-founders of The Modern House, a London-based property company that specialises in architect-designed homes. And then, just like This Brutal World we have pertinent quotes from philosophers, musicians, composers, polemicists, authors and artists - many of whom you wouldn't necessarily associate with architecture, but that bring another layer of meaning and interpretation to the architecture.
What's that building on the cover? Ah, that's a remake of one of the Master's Houses at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, designed by Bruno Fioretti Marquez in 2010. Once again, I chose it because it's the perfect synthesis of what this book is all about - the continuity between the canonical Modernism of the early 20th century and the direct connection to contemporary architecture.
What was the most fun part of making the book? The curation of the many hundreds of images making the picture combinations above which involved laying them out and grouping them to make visual connections between old and new. That was so much fun. As a result of the curation process, the images on the pages are able to speak to one another both photographically and architecturally. For instance, the glass pavilion by Steve Hermann in Montecito, California, in 2010 demonstrates a direct lineage to, say, Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 or his Farnsworth House designed in 1945.
Ornament Is Crime - available for pre-order
As well as reinforcing the architectural aesthetic of the movement the black and white photos have an almost 3D quality to them… They're not actually black and white, they're printed in duotone. If we only used black ink, or even a four colour black, we would get a much harsher result on the page and risk losing too much detail in the way the shadows, light and texture are reproduced. Using duotone, in which we employ a particular pantone grey reference, we're able to bring the images to life and get a greater depth of 'colour' and detail.
Is it possible for you to pick your favourite building? Oh yes! My personal favourite in the book is Lina Bo Bardi's Casa de Vidro (or Glass House) in São Paulo. She is so well known for her brutalist concrete buildings in São Paulo (Museum of Art – MASP and Sesc Pompéia) that it's nice to revisit one of her pure Modernist buildings. It is just so elegant. She designed it so that the forest would grow under and around it but the photo in the book is from when it was just built and, as yet, untouched by the surrounding vegetation.
Pre-order Ornament Is Crime here, and buy its predecessor This Brutal World, which is just back in print, here.
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Q: Difference between pluck() and lists() in laravel? This is so confusing to me. I don't see any difference between these two methods. If I var_dump() the object returned by these methods, they are exactly the same but the book by Dayle Rees says that pluck() returns a single value from the given column (the first one) while the lists() method returns all the values from the given column. I can't even figure out why two different methods exist to do the same thing.
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Route::get('getalbum', function() {
    $data = \App\Album::pluck('artist');
    var_dump($data); // a lot of text, let's call it 'object'

    $data = \App\Album::lists('artist');
    var_dump($data); // exact , exact, exact same 'object'
});

A: From the docs, Deprecations section

The following features are deprecated in 5.2 and will be removed in the 5.3 release in June 2016
The lists method on the Collection, query builder and Eloquent query builder objects has been renamed to pluck. The method signature remains the same.

So yes they are same. It's just there for backward compatibility.
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Morning / Afternoon arrive at Bhubaneswar airport & transfer to the hotel. Rest of the day free to relax. Overnight at Bhubaneswar.
After morning breakfast at hotel proceed for full day sightseeing of Bhubneshwar city covering Nandankanan zoo ( closed on Monday ). This zoo is famous for its white tiger safari. Later visit to tribal museum ( closed on Monday ), Khandagiri & Udaigiri Jain caves. Back to hotel. Overnight at hotel.
After morning breakfast at hotel proceed from Bhubaneswar to puri. Enroute visit Dhauli the peace Pagoda, Pipli The Applique village & Raghurajpur craft village. On arrival at Puri. Check in to the hotel. Rest time relax on the golden beach of Puri. Overnight at hotel.
After morning breakfast at hotel proceed to visit Jagannath temple ( non hindus are not allowed ). Then visit to Gundicha temple & Loknath temple. Also visit to the local market. And rest time relax on the beach. Overnight at Puri.
After morning breakfast at hotel proceed from Puri to Konark to visit the sun temple ( one of the world famous heritage site ). Enroute visit Ramchandi temple & Chandrabhaga beach. Return back to Puri. Evening visit to beach market. Overnight at Puri.
After morning breakfast at hotel proceed from Puri to Gopalpur. Enroute visit Chilika lake at Barkul. At Barkul take the boat cruise to visit the birds island. Then proceed to Gopalpur. Overnight at Gopalpur.
After morning breakfast at hotel morning excursion to Taptapani to visit the hot Sulpheric spring. Return back to Goplapur. Overnight at Gopalpur.
After morning breakfast at hotel proceed from Gopalpur to Bhubaneswar. Reach Bhubneshwar & c/in the hotel. Then visit to famous city temples including Rajarani, Parsurameswar, Mukteswar, Brahmeswar & Lingaraj. Overnight at hotel.
After morning breakfast at hotel transfer to Bhubneshwar airport to board the flight to onward destination with sweet memories of the tour.


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Q: Extremely High CPU Usage on Apche on Google Cloud Im a hardware developer and my friend has a website on google cloud. Suddenly the cpu usage goes extremely high. Even refreshing a page with one line causes the CPU usage to sky rocket.
It uses expression engine and runs an apache server. It has a mysql database. The specs of the machine are
3 GHz 1 core
3.75 GB RAM
Please let me know what other information i need to add
Im not good with networks at all. The main reason im here is because the server runs linux and Im  the only one he knows that knows to use it.
Edit: The main process that eats the CPU usage is Apache 2. There are a lot of instances that combined takes around 80%. So if there are 10 apache processes wach one would take around 7 - 9%. If there were 6 apache each one takes around 10 - 13 %. What i want to know is whether i the system needs upgrading or if it is a configuration error. I have already reduced the max client from 150 to 10. Now the memory overflow does not happen, but the cpu usage is still 100%


How innovative is Apple's new voice assistant, Siri?
IT LETS you check the weather or make an appointment simply by asking aloud, but is Siri, the "personal assistant" on Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, really such an advance?
Yes, says Boris Katz, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at MIT. He says Apple has created a "very impressive piece of engineering" by combining established techniques from fields such as voice recognition and natural language processing.
Apple won't talk about Siri's underlying technology, though a patent application it filed earlier this year reveals that the software manages these errors by restricting queries to specific areas like dining or the weather. Apple calls such themes, for which Siri has access to databases of information, "active ontologies". For example, the dining ontology contains databases of restaurants, cuisines and dishes, along with information on the concept of a meal – that it involves one or more people gathering to eat.
Siri listens out for keywords such as "Mexican" or "taco" to identify the subject area. It also works out whether to prompt for more information – such as what time to book a table – or whether it has enough details to access a reservations website and make the booking. This final step is possible because most web services now offer application programming interfaces (APIs) that let apps feed information to them. "That's one of the reasons Siri is possible now when it wouldn't have been five or 10 years ago," says Resnik.
The ability to make sense of requests phrased in ordinary language sets Siri apart from competitors such as Android's Voice Actions, which requires commands in a certain format – saying "navigate to" will elicit directions, but "how do I get to… ?" will not. It doesn't look as if Google is planning a Siri competitor yet. "I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant," said Andy Rubin, who heads Android development at Google, last week.
Siri will only get better. All queries users put to it are processed by Apple's servers, giving the company a wealth of data it can use to improve the app. Katz suggests Apple could mine this data to discover commonly asked questions that Siri cannot yet handle. That's simple enough, but what about asking it to "book a meal for my family when we're all available"?
"Siri 2 might involve taking advantage of the fact that many of the tasks you attempt to solve have a social aspect to them," says Resnik. So, for example, the Siris on your family members' iPhones could all work together to organise the meal.
Blunsom says Apple must try to keep expectations realistic, otherwise people might dismiss Siri because it "can't answer esoteric questions, despite the fact that it can find you a good sushi restaurant nearby".


Publicity regarding the Bargain Bazaar fundraiser that took place on October 13-14, 1976 and was sponsored by the Auxiliary. Includes captioned photo with handwritten date of October 18, 1976 reading: "The first bargain bazaar of the Auxiliary of University of Maryland Hospital, Inc. was a great success. The two-day event netted over $1,800 for the auxiliary's many projects."


"In May 2001, I was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer," says Sheila Wessenberg, 45, whose forthright manner and rapid, joke-peppered speech smacks more of Brooklyn, where she grew up, than the Dallas area, where she now lives with her husband and two children. "That summer, I had a lumpectomy and four doses of chemo. But in September, the cancer had returned."
In October, Wessenberg had a right-side mastectomy and started chemo in March 2002. Then, barely eight weeks later, her husband, Bob, a Lotus programmer, lost his job, and Sheila was told by her oncologist that she had, at best, 18 months to live. "We had wanted for nothing until then," she says. "We were living in a luxury home on a lake, for Pete's sake. Granite countertops, marble everything. Then the cancer. Then this!"
The Wessenbergs went through their portfolio first. Then the kids' bank accounts. Then they sold their artwork, Sheila's jewelry, the coin collection Bob had inherited from his father, the washer and dryer. "Everything," she says, "that wasn't nailed down."
Still on chemo, Wessenberg took a job through a temp agency, doing payroll four hours a week. The family moved. They managed to pay for health insurance out of pocket for six months, until the premiums jumped to $832 a month. Denied Medicaid because they had too many assets (they still owned a car), she was forced to drop out of chemo—and to start panhandling.
"I just couldn't believe my life had come to this," says Wessenberg, who took to walking the streets every weekend with a white pail on which she had written, 'NOT A BUM. I'm a mom. Please HELP.' "But I had to do something. It got to the point where we didn't have enough money for groceries."
The turning point came late one night when she saw an ad for a campaign called Covering the Uninsured, and she immediately logged on to their website, taking the time to type in her own heartrending story. Two weeks went by, then she got a call from a journalist writing a book for the campaign about uninsured Americans. The book, including her story, was later featured in The New York Times. She received her first phone call at 8:00 that morning. "A man said, 'You don't know me, but I just read the story about you in The New York Times, and I want to help you,' " Wessenberg recalls. "I started crying immediately."
The phone has never stopped ringing. "I found out at one point I was talking to the former CEO of a major financial company," she marvels. "He sent us a cashier's check for a phenomenal amount of money. I got $8 from someone in New Jersey. Then a philanthropist in the Beverly Hills area called. One elderly lady sent a dollar in change. It was unbelievable. It was beautiful. It was nuts! I even got a check for $10,000—anonymously."
Wessenberg sent everyone thank-you notes, many of which she designed herself on her computer. "There I was, doing all these thank-yous," she says, "when my girlfriend asked me to do her son's birthday invitations. She loved them, and the next thing I know, a woman my girlfriend works with wanted me to do her wedding invitations. All of a sudden, I've got this little business going. One day, I'm destitute; the next, I have a business of my own"—a company she dubbed So Cool.
"There are no words to express the immense gratitude, the peaceful feeling I now have, and the awe I feel for the incredible people who reached out to me—and for the entire miraculous experience," says Wessenberg, who, with the help of a Dallas-based organization called Bridge Breast Network, is now able to afford the blood work and scans she needs to monitor her health. Despite the fact that she never completed her full course of chemotherapy, her cancer is in remission.
"The fact that I'm still alive and have a roof over my head, I completely attribute to the incredible kindness of the American public and the good feelings it created in me," she says. "Other than my children, it's by far the greatest gift I've ever received."
The Bridge Breast Network links low-income, uninsured women in the Dallas area to diagnostic and treatment services for breast cancer. For more information, call toll-free (877) 258-1396 or check out their website.


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Woman saves stranger's life with CPR in grocery store: 'We were meant to cross paths'
By Laura Hensley	Global News
Posted October 19, 2018 1:17 pm
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Lisa Manoy, right, helped saved a stranger's life in a grocery store. Yahoo! / Facebook
A woman who received CPR from a stranger in a grocery store found the person who helped save her life online, and now talks to her "every day."
Marianne LaPlante was with her mother at an Aldi grocery store in Howell, N.J., last week when she started feeling unwell and suddenly fell to the ground. When nurse Lisa Manoy saw her convulsing severely on the ground, she stepped in.
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"There was blood all around her head. An immense amount of blood. It was traumatic," Manoy told Yahoo! News. Although Manoy said she hadn't worked as a nurse for years, she began checking LaPlante's vital signs as she went in and out of consciousness.
When LaPlante stopped breathing, Manoy performed CPR on her, and Manoy's daughter helped keep LaPlante's mother calm. LaPlante was then taken to the hospital, where Manoy was unable to contact her. Manoy said she was worried about how she was doing.
After the incident, LaPlante shared her gratitude on her Facebook page, thanking the stranger who helped save her life.
"I would like to thank the woman who resuscitated me at Aldi's yesterday afternoon. You have may well saved my life. Also, thank you to the woman who held my 94-year-old Mom and said prayers with her while waiting for the ambulance," she wrote.
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"You may never see this post or know my gratitude to the both of you but I will forever think of the two women who jumped into my life and made it possible for me to see a new day. There is still great good in this world."
Shortly after the post was shared, Manoy's daughter saw it, and showed it to her mother. From there, Manoy and LaPlante connected, and have since been speaking every day either on the phone, via text, or on Facebook messenger.
Manoy said that LaPlante has invited her and her daughter to dinner.
"She said, 'Is it silly to tell you I love you?' And I said, 'No, it's not silly at all, because I feel the same way. I love you too,'" Manoy said. "We were meant to cross paths."
"That's all it was."
Laura.Hensley@globalnews.ca
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[ARCHIVED] James T. Wilson Fishing Pier reopens Saturday, Oct. 17, after being hit by barge in November
Oct. 14, 2020 - Hampton's James T. Wilson Fishing Pier - closed since November when it was hit by a drifting barge - will reopen Saturday at 8 a.m. Repairs have been completed and the pier will resume regular hours until Dec. 31, when it will close until April 1. Located at 330 South Resort Blvd., the pier is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Pier admission fees have not changed, but new protocols for COVID-19 are in place, including:
Patrons are asked to wear masks while in the pier house area.
The Pier deck has been marked in 10-foot sections, and anglers (and all their equipment) must remain within these designated areas. This will be monitored by "pier ambassadors."
Total, social-distancing capacity for the pier is 160 anglers at one time, with 72 on each side of the pier, and 16 on the end of the pier.
Should the pier reach these capacities, ticket sales will be suspended for sightseers and non-fishing visitors.
Water fountains will not be available.
The admissions window has been outfitted with a sneeze guard barrier, and staff will be wearing masks and gloves. Staff is also following an enhanced schedule for frequent hand-washing.
Restrooms are sanitized every 4 hours.
Parking will be limited to the pier parking lot after 10:00 p.m. Overflow parking in the nearby grass lot owned by the Housing Authority will not be available.
For more information, call the city's 3-1-1 Citizens Contact Center (757-727-8311 from your cell phone), or call the pier at 757-727-1486. You can also get more information by visiting www.hampton.gov/parks.


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using System.Web.Mvc;
using WebExtras.DemoApp.Models.Core;
using WebExtras.Mvc.Core;

namespace WebExtras.DemoApp.Controllers
{
  public partial class GraphDataController : Controller
  {
    /// <summary>
    /// Returns the graph data to be plotted as JSON
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>JSON data result</returns>
    public virtual ActionResult GetJQPlotData()
    {
      List<double[][]> data = new List<double[][]> { new GraphDataGenerator().GraphSampleData };

      return new JsonNetResult(data, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }
  }
}

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Hashtag Trending – Twitter fact checking; Jeff Bezos getting richer; cyberattack against CAA
@itworldca
Published: June 9th, 2020
Twitter puts a fact-checking label on tweets linking COVID-19 TO 5G, Jeff Bezos gets $35 billion richer, and the Canadian Accounting Association has been hit with a cyber-attack.
It's all the tech news that's popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It's Tuesday, June 9, and I'm your host, Baneet Braich.
After the burning of multiple cell towers in response to a ridiculous conspiracy theory about 5G, Twitter is now fact-checking any tweets that falsy link 5G connectivity to COVID-19. When users click the fact-checking label they're taken to a site that says NO. 5G isn't causing coronavirus followed by other articles, resources and experts debunking the theory. Twitter says "We're prioritizing the removal of COVID-19 content when it has a call to action that could potentially cause harm." Companies including Twitter, Apple, YouTube, Spotify and Facebook have been accused of facilitating information on 5G causing COVID-19. More critics are calling social media platforms to have similar posts removed and to stop outsourcing content to insufficient moderators.
COVID-19 has destroyed thousands of businesses and lives, but it's been a good year for Jeff Bezos' pockets. The Amazon CEO added $35 billion to his net worth meaning he is now worth $150 billion…yes just $150 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The spike is linked to Amazon's soaring stock price as people have naturally shopped more online during the pandemic. In addition, Amazon has hired nearly 175,000 people in recent weeks to keep up with the demand.
Canadian accounting association website gets hacked
Lastly, the Canadian Accounting Association has been hit with a cyberattack and is warning members about phishing scams. Hackers got information access to CPA Magazine subscribers such as names, addresses, email addresses and employer names. Nearly 329,000 individuals have been warned for phishing scams. Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada is asking employees to remain vigilant about any emails they may receive asking them to provide sensitive information. You can read our reporting on this story, at ITWorldCanada.com
That's all the tech news that's trending right now. Hashtag Trending is a part of the ITWC Podcast network. Add us to your Alexa Flash Briefing or your Google Home daily briefing. I'm Baneet Braich, thanks for listening.
IBM says it's exiting the facial recognition business
Canada's rural 4G speed up 70% year-over-year according to Opensignal report


I've had The Thesis Whisperer on my blog reader for some time and there always something interesting and helpful to peruse. Seeing this post made me do a double take and I was curious to see this methodology in practice.
Written by Dr. Inger Mewburn, (the Director of Research at Australian National University), the blog offers plenty advice on thesis/dissertation writing. Makes you feel a little less insane when someone can commiserate with your experience and even better, when they can put the whole thing into words.


As a system upgrade project, Michels Corporation, an authorized CenterPoint Energy contractor, will replace approximately 3,480 feet of various diameter steel and plastic pipe with 3,580 feet of various diameter plastic pipe along Pioneer Trail, between Cedar Forest Road and Stable Path.
The work will also include the replacement of approximately 12 natural gas service lines. Construction is expected to begin in mid-October of 2015 and will require approximately one month to complete the work.


My name is Erica La Greca and I'm nineteen years old. I just finished High School with a scientific certification, and afterward, I took the decision to take a Gap year time to reflect about my future and especially to make an experience through which I have the possibility to learn new things and new realities, different as mine.
I've always had an interest in developing countries and cultures.
I come from Catania, which is a city in Sicily, and, due to the migration phenomenon of people who for several reasons, like for example War and Poverty, is forced to escape from their own countries, I had the chance, thanks to activities organized by my school and with my scout group, to know stories of some of these people that travelled to Europe to change their life condition.
What I realized after having joined in several projects, is the difficulty they often have in integrating themselves in an other kind of society. That's why I've always been wondering how it could actually be for them, how different the place where they come from is, what kind of support they need, and what actually integration is.
Coming to Africa has always been one of my biggest dreams, to be able to realize directly, with my own eyes, how things in the world change and how many differences there are, depending on where you're born and where you're used to live.
This is my first time coming in Tanzania and in Africa in general. I know Africa is really big and extended. For sure, things and realities are not the same in the whole continent, but I felt the need, and also the curiosity to make a first step and start being involved directly and finding a way to learn something form another culture.
I think that differences can always be an empowerment for both sides and that's why I'm really honored to be here, to see and to try to understand how lots of people use to live.
I made lots of researches to find a way to come here and take part of a volunteering group, and thanks to Tulime onlus, I'm actually here now.
I arrived here a week ago and I'm living here, in casa Tulime, in Pomerini, Kilolo district with other five girls.
We are learning to know each other and that's really important, especially when you have to work in the same project and to live together in the same house. This is also an empowerment, because, with the share of skills and interests, it's possible also to improve and to grow.
Stefania is our mentor; She has been living here in Pomerini for some years, and she knows lots of things about the people who lives here and about several important aspects of this place. She is leading us with the activities and she is also helping all of us in knowing lots of cultural aspects of this area.
Having someone leading you in an experience as important and strong as this one could be, is a really fundamental aspect. I'm honored to be here now, and to have someone as competent and aknowledged as her, leading me and my SVE group.
Further more, we are also having swahili lessons, and she is hardly trying to teach us this absolutely new language.
It is quite difficult to learn lots of new words, but it is also really important to be able to comunicate with local inhabitants of Pomerini, to get the social gap off and to find a sort of integration with them.
Recycling is the main topic of this You.com project, that's why Tulime and our mentor Stefania, do work for us to learn and to discuss about several important problems, like for example Pollution, Environmental issues in Africa and the process of production of lots of products and materials we often find in our daily life. These group-workshops are really interesting in helping all of us in having a global view of real problems who affect the whole world, starting to see things from our own realities.
Cultural activities are also a main point of our project; thats why we already had te chance to learn by some Women, how to make Baagia (fried beans balls), and Vikapu (hand-made baskets). It has been everything really interesting until now.
I do not know if I will ever realize how important experience like this can be, the only thing I know is that, discovering new things is something I'm actually doing right now; And i trust this experience, to personally begin a studying about it at the University, that could help me in getting other knowledges to be able in helping in cooperation and his cultural shares.
So proud of you! This is a very beautiful story Erica, this experience, and all the people, cultures, environments you're gonna to know, will change your life but I'm sure you're going to change other peoples life as well 🙂 I wish you all the best, see you soon my little cousin!


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Actress Issa Rae discusses minority representation in the media, her show "Insecure"
Jonathan Kopeliovich
Featured, Local News, News
Audio attribution at bottom
On Thursday, March 18, the Student Union Board of Governors hosted a Q&A with actress, producer and writer Issa Rae, the star of the webseries "Awkward Black Girl" and the Emmy-nominated TV show "Insecure." University of Connecticut student Aliyah Hayes moderated the discussion with Rae about the efforts to combat Black stereotypes in the media, the actress's career and the final season of "Insecure."
Rae's career has been centered around portraying complex and multifaceted Black narratives. With the last season of the show "Insecure" approaching, Rae offered her thoughts on stereotypes and stories.
"The power comes in showcasing our [black women's] vulnerability and our weaknesses and kind of combating those narratives," she said. "I just try to paint a full picture of who we are."
The statistics don't lie when it comes to representation of the stories of people of color in the media. The 2020 UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report in 2020 states that only 1.5 out of 10 film directors were POC in 2019. Another article on the website OpportunityAgenda.org cites studies that show that negative representations of Black Americans on TV are exaggerated, especially when portraying them as criminals. These negative representations can in turn lead to distorted perceptions by viewers, which fuels antagonism and racist stereotypes.
Rae actively fights against stereotypes.
"When I say yes to do a film, I'm going to put in my contract or express explicitly that I don't want to do this unless you have a diverse crew," she said.
Rae's determination and ambition to display diverse stories in the media has led to critical acclaim for her web series "Awkward Black Girl," and her film debut in the movie "The Hate U Give," a story adapted from a book of a young Black girl dealing with themes of police brutality, racism and poverty. Below is the trailer from the movie.
Aside from Rae's experience with multimedia, be it show, an internet series or film, she says that it's important that people use their voices to promote Black artists.
"Social media has democratized who can be seen and when you're championing an artist online, when you're sharing them, when you're telling everybody about them, that helps. That is a currency," Rae said.
The internet is a powerful tool for creating diverse content. Rae's time with her web series "Awkward Black Girl" is one example of how audience feedback can lead to more diverse stories. Rae said she used the positive feedback on "Awkward Black Girl" to show studio executives that people want these types of stories.
"I had the internet to prove these stories are stories that people want to see," Rae said.
Even with "Insecure" coming to a close, Rae is set on creating more content.
"I'm already working on a new show called Rap Shit, that is currently writing and is set to shoot in Miami in the summer," she said.
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Торторми () — высокогорное ледниковое озеро в Бутане.

Торторми расположено в гевоге Лунана на высоте 4428 метров над уровнем моря. Озеро питается быстро тающими гималайскими ледниками. После наводнения 1994 года, которое вызвало панику среди местного населения и привело к гибели 20 человек, правительство Бутана с помощью Программы развития ООН (UNDP), Всемирного фонда дикой природы (WWF), Австрийского агентства по охране окружающей среды () и волонтёров разработали проект частичного осушения озера, в результате чего уровень воды был снижен на 86 см.

Примечания

Ссылки

Озёра Бутана
Гаса (дзонгхаг)

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A significant number of people in the former Kingdom of Bosnia converted to Islam after the conquest by the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the 15th century, giving it a unique character within the Balkan region.  It took over one hundred years for Islam to become the majority religion. Muslims paid much lower taxes and enjoyed widespread benefits while Christians were second-class citizens.

Background
Several factors appear to have been behind this process.  Most important was that Christianity had relatively shallow roots in Bosnia prior to the Ottoman domination. Bosnia lacked a strong Christian church organization to command a strong following—the result of a scarcity of priests and competition among the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches and schismatic Bosnian Church, which collapsed shortly before the Ottomans arrived.  This left most people religiously unengaged and receptive to the appeal of Islam's  institutions.  This receptiveness was aided by the development among many people of a kind of folk Christianity centered on various practices and ceremonies that was adaptable to a form of folk Islam popular at the time of the invasion.

One theory as to why conversion to Islam was more prevalent in Bosnia than other places in the Balkans is the possibility that the Bosnian Church practiced bogomilism. Bogomilism was regarded as a major dualistic heresy by the Catholic Church and against whom Pope John XXII even launched a Crusade in 1325. Thus many adherents of the Bosnian Church were more receptive to conversion to Islam. In fact, in the Bogomilian tradition, there were several practices that resembled Islam: they repudiated the Cross as a religious symbol, they considered it as idolatry to bow down before religious images, relics or saints, and even prayed five times a day (reciting the Lord's Prayer.)  However, it is not universally accepted among historians that the Bosnian Church was Bogomilist.

This theory is supported by some historians, including Sir Thomas Arnold, but other historians consider it an oversimplification.  It is pointed out that Bosnians of all Christian denominations converted to Islam, including from the Catholic and Orthodox churches, not just those from the Bosnian church. Additionally, much of the population of Bosnia did not belong to the Bosnian church. Finally, under Ottoman rule there was significant religious conversion in many directions: many Catholics converted to the Orthodox church and vice versa.

According to scholar Fine, the reason why conversion to Islam was more prevalent in Bosnia (and Albania) as opposed to other areas under Ottoman rule is because these areas had multiple competing churches, none of which were dominant. Thus Bosnians were less devoted Christians than other Balkanites.

Another way in which Bosnia differed from other parts of the Ottoman Balkans is that, for most of the Ottoman period, Bosnia was a frontier province, facing some of the empire's most important enemies— Austria, Hungary, and Venice. To fill up depopulated areas of northern and western Bosnia, the Ottomans encouraged the migration of large numbers of hardy settlers with military skills from Serbia and Herzegovina. Some of these settlers were Vlachs, members of a pre-Slav Balkan population that had acquired a Latinate language and specialized in stock breeding, horse raising, long-distance trade, and fighting. Most were members of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Before the Ottoman conquest, that church had had very few members in the Bosnian lands outside Herzegovina and the eastern strip of the Drina valley. There is no definite evidence of any Orthodox church buildings in central, northern, or western Bosnia before 1463. During the 16th century, however, several Orthodox monasteries were built in those parts of Bosnia, apparently to serve the newly settled Orthodox population there.

Economic and social gain was also an incentive to become a Muslim: conversion to Islam conferred economic and social status.  Under the feudal system imposed by the Ottomans, only those who converted to Islam could acquire and inherit land and property, which accorded them political rights, a status usually denied to non-Muslims.  A number of Christian nobles, however, were able to retain their estates early on in the Ottoman rule by fighting on behalf of the Empire, suggesting that holding on to their property was not a major incentive for early conversions to Islam.  At a lower socioeconomic level, most new converts to Islam were able to turn their holdings into freehold farms.  At the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder were the serfs, who constituted the majority of the population and were predominantly Christians.  In addition, only Muslims could hold positions in the Ottoman state apparatus, which conferred special privileges and a much higher standard of living.  Muslims also enjoyed legal privileges: Christians could not sue Muslims and their testimony could not be used against Muslims in court.

The gradual conversion to Islam proceeded at different rates in various areas and among different groups.  Conversion to Islam was more rapid in urban areas, which were centers of learning and of the Ottoman administration, than in the countryside.  Merchants found it advantageous to convert to Islam because they gained greater freedom of movement and state protection for their goods as Muslims.  Many professional soldiers also converted to Islam to ensure more rapid promotion.

By the 17th century a majority of the population of Bosnia was Muslim.

The various advantages and privileges that were reserved for Muslims and the large number of conversions they encouraged among the native population led to the emergence over time of a largely local Muslim ruling class that dominated political and economic power in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the later Ottoman period, Bosnia attracted Muslim refugees from lands that were reconquered by Christian powers (mainly Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia). Some converted to Islam as a way to escape the devşirme tribute (whereby the son of Christian family would be taken for military service). At the same time, some Muslim families preferred to have their sons conscripted (e.g. into the Janissary) as that gave them a chance to go to school and advance professionally.

Another way in which Bosnia was Islamized was through immigration. During the Great Turkish War of the late 1600s, the Ottoman Empire lost control of most of Hungary and portions of the northwestern Balkans. Many Muslims in these regions fled to other parts of the Balkans, including to Bosnia.

See also
 Islamization
 Spread of Islam
 Muslim conquests

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Social history of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina during Ottoman period


In 1956 John and Josephine Kelleher took over the running of Salthill Service Station from Esso Ireland with two pumps and a hut. Over the coming years, they extended it to a workshop and a car accessory shop until it grew to a three bay garage.
In 1974 they were appointed the second Volvo dealer in Ireland and in 1985 were appointed Suzuki dealer for Galway City and County, afterwards the premises was extended to a new workshop facility and showrooms. In 1993 the existing site was extensively developed into a modern pump layout with the addition of a 24-hour shop, new supermarket and carwash.
In 2005 we made a bold decision to move from Esso to Texaco and in 2009 we re-developed the shop to a modern XL Stop & Shop.
After the sad passing of John Kelleher in Febuary 2014 The Business passed to Sean Kelleher the Second Generation.
We start 2016 with great optimism and are glad to say we employ 25 staff.
This year we celebrate our 60 th Birthday "Happy Birthday".


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Q: Passing to weak-strong limit in pointwise inclusions Let $F:\mathbb R^m\rightrightarrows\mathbb R^n$ be a set-valued map (or multi-function, correspondence) with $F(x)\ne\emptyset$ for all $x\in \mathbb R^m$.

Let $I\subset\mathbb R$ be an interval.
  Let be sequences of functions $(y_n)$ and $(x_n)$ in $L^2(I,\mathbb R^n)$ and  $L^2(I,\mathbb R^m)$ be given such that

*

*$x_n(t) \to x(t)$ for almost all $t\in I$,

*$y_n \rightharpoonup y$ in $L^2(I,\mathbb R^n)$

*$y_n(t) \in F(x_n(t))$  for almost all $t\in I$.

  If $F$ satisfies certain properties then this implies
  $$
y(t) \in \overline{conv} ( F(x(t)))
$$
  for almost all $t\in I$.

This is proven in the book of Aubin & Frankowska under the assumption that $F$ is outer semicontinuous (i.e., the graph of $F$ is closed) and local boundedness of $F$ (each point $x$ has a small neighborhood $U$ such that $F(U)$ is bounded). In the book by Aubin & Cellina, $F$ is assumed to be upper hemicontinuous ($x\mapsto \sup_{y\in F(x)}y^Tp$ is upper semicontinuous for all $p$).
The following mapping $F$ does not satisfy these assumptions:
$$
F(x) = \begin{cases} \{0\} & x\le 0\\
\{0,\frac 1x\} & x>0\end{cases}.
$$
My question is: is the statement of the theorem true or false for this kind of map? Can one find a counterexample? Is there a complete characterization of properties of $F$ to reach the conclusion?

A: I think for your specific example there is no counterexample.
However, I am not sure which properties of $F$ are important for this result, or how to characterize those $F$
such that the statement of the theorem holds.
sketch of proof:
We can consider the case where $I$ is a measurable set with finite measure, not just an interval.
By Egorovs theorem we know that $x_n\to x$ uniformly on a set $B_\varepsilon$ which is equal to $I$ up to a set of measure $\varepsilon$.
Thus, wlog we can assume that $x_n\to x$ uniformly on $I$.
We only consider the "interesting" case where $x=0$, $x_n\geq 0$, $y>0$.
(Otherwise we can solve the problem on measurable subsets of $I$, e.g. $\{t : y(t)=0 \},\{t:y(t)>0\}$, $\{t:x(t)<0\}$, etc.).
We have $0\leq x_n\leq s_n$ for some $s_n\in \mathbb R$ with $s_n\to0$.
Due to the definition of $F$, we can see that
$$
 y_n(t) = \frac1{x_n(t)} \chi_{A_n}
$$
for a suitable measurable set $A_n\subset I$.
Then we have the inquality
$$
\| y_n \|_{L^2} \geq \int_I y_n(t) \frac1{s_n} \mathrm dt.
$$
Since $y_n$ converges weakly we have $\int_I y_n(t) \mathrm dt\to \int_I y \mathrm dt>0$.
Thus $y_n$ is unbounded due to the previous inequality.
This is a contradiction to to the weak convergence of $y_n$.

A: Here is a supposed proof with weaker assumptions on $F$:

Let $I$ be $\sigma$-finite.
  Assume $F$ is outer semicontinuous. Suppose $y_n\rightharpoonup y$ in $L^p(I)$, $1<p<\infty$. Assume $0\in F(x(t))$ for almost all  $t$.
  Then the conclusion of the theorem in OP is valid.

Assume $I$ has finite measure.
 Let $m>0$. Define
$$
 I_{m,n} = \{t:  \ |y_n(t)|>m\}, \quad \chi_{m,n}:= \chi_{I_{m,n}}.
$$
Then $\|\chi_{m,n}\|_{L^1(I)} \le m^{-p} \|y_n\|_{L^p(I)}^p \le c m^{-p}$ for all $m,n$ with $c$ independent of $n$.
In addition, we have the inclusion
$$
 (1-\chi_{m,n})y_n \in \left( F(x_n(t))\cap \overline{B_M(0)}\right) \cup\{0\}.
$$
Since $((1-\chi_{m,n})y_n)_n$ is bounded in $L^p(I)$, there is a weakly converging subsequence with limit $y^m$. Passing to the
limit in the inclusion we get by the result of Aubin and Frankowska
$$
 y^m(t) \in \overline{conv}\left( \left( F(x_n(t))\cap \overline{B_M(0)}\right) \cup\{0\}  \right) \subset\overline{conv}{ F(x(t))}.
$$
It remains to show that $y_m$ converges to $y$. To this end, consider
$$
 (1-\chi_{m,n})y_n  - y_n = \chi_{m,n} y_n.
$$
By the estimates of $\chi_{m,n}$, we have
$$
 \|\chi_{m,n} y_n\|_{L^1(I)} \le \|y_n\|_{L^p(I)} \|\chi_{m,n}\|_{L^{p'}(I)} \le c \ m^{-p/p'},
$$
where $c$ is independent of $n$. This shows $\|y^m - y\|_{L^1(I)} \le c \ m^{-p/p'}$,
which converges to zero for $m\to  \infty$.
Hence, a subsequence of $(y^m)$ converges pointwise a.e. to $y$, which proves the claim.


Conversation Candy Hearts have been a Valentine's Day staple for over a century. Here's a hands-on craft inspired by the timeless candy that will have you and your kids sharing conversation over salt dough and cookie cutters!
For this craft, you'll need to begin by making a batch of salt dough.
Mix the flour, salt, water, and oil together in a large bowl. If needed, you can add a little extra flour or water until the dough reaches the right consistency. Separate portions of the dough into smaller bowls. We divided ours into four portions. Add drops of food coloring to each bowl and mix it with the dough thoroughly. Tip: You may want to use your hands to mix the color in after mixing it a little with a spoon. If you divide your dough into fourths, about 5 drops of food coloring works perfectly. We left one portion of dough white since that is one of the colors of Conversation Hearts.
*Our recipe can also be seen on this post for Salt Dough Leaves.
1. Prepare a batch of colored salt dough and gather your materials.
2. Pieces of parchment paper make a great non-stick mat for the kids to play with the dough. Have them flatten out pieces of dough and use the cookie cutters to cut out hearts.
3. Then they can gently press the letter stamps (no ink) into the dough hearts to create messages. This part of the craft is great spelling practice for the kids.
4. Lay a piece of parchment paper onto a baking tray. Place the stamped hearts onto the tray.
5. Use a straw to punch holes through some of the hearts. This will allow you to string twine through them once they have hardened.
6. Either leave the hearts to dry on their own for 24-48 hours or bake them in the oven on about 175 degrees for a few hours.
7. String pieces of baker's twine through the hearts with holes. These are perfect to hang up as decorations or use as napkin rings for a Valentine's Day place setting. Your other hearts will look lovely displayed in a dish or secured on the front of Valentine's Day cards you are giving away to others.